Torn lab suit used in Ebola experiment faces examination

The Canadian government will review the use of a suit designed to shield laboratory workers from dangers such as the Ebola virus after an employee found a tear following an experiment, the lab's director said on Wednesday.

The worker at the National Center for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg may have been accidentally exposed to Ebola on Monday while handling pigs infected with Ebola in an experiment, government officials said on Tuesday.

The worker, whom officials have not identified, noticed a 2.5-centimeter split in his suit's seam while showering on Monday, John Copps, director of the center, run by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, told Reuters in an interview.